Gabriela Mistral

"Wherever your tree is planted, that is your home."

"I am my own path."

"We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but the worst of all our faults is that we are so pleased with ourselves."

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

"I sing the differential of my roads."

"The exercise of teaching children is the most poetic of occupations."

"What the world needs is women."

"Miracles are the bread of children."

"I learned that the state does not have to mean much; it is society that has to mean something."

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."

"A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart."

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."

"The human being is a selfish creature, it seems."

"My pedagogy is inspired by an infinite tenderness."

"I am always that of which I am forgotten."

"What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."

"Every reader finds himself. The book is a mirror."

"The joys of mothers are violent joys."

"I love everything that is old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines."

"One serves a country not only in the ranks of its armed forces."

"Life is offered to you like a blank check. You write the sum."

"Good friends, good books, good night."

"The pedagogy of love must be more daring."

"Many things we need can wait. The child cannot."

"A mother's heart has a larger capacity."

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."

"We cannot achieve more than we can imagine."

"The future is an opaque mirror."

"Lack of truth leads to lack of love."

"I only leave you one thing: yourself."